South Korean rapper Psy, who sings the popular “Gangnam Style” song, left, performs during his concert in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012. Older men are being warned to avoid dancing to energetic hit songs like Gangnam Style after a British 46-year-old father of three collapsed and died at his office Christmas party after copying Psy's moves.Ahn Young-joon
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South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, also known as Psy, performs during his concert at Seoul on October 2, 2012. The 34-year-old singer shot to international fame when his “Gangnam Style” video went viral shortly after being posted on YouTube in mid-July. It has since notched up more than 270 million views on the video-sharing site.KIM JAE-HWAN
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South Korean singer Park Jae-Sang, also known as Psy, performs during his free concert in Seoul on October 4, 2012. The municipal government closed off part of the city centre and extended subway operations for the estimated 80,000 fans who packed the open venue outside Seoul City Hall and spilled out into the surrounding streets. The video to “Gangnam Style”, featuring Psy’s much-imitated horse-riding dance, went viral after its July release on YouTube, where it has now notched up more than 350 million views.KIM JAE-HWAN
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South Korean singer Park Jae-Sang, also known as Psy, performs during his free concert in Seoul on October 4, 2012. The municipal government closed off part of the city centre and extended subway operations for the estimated 80,000 fans who packed the open venue outside Seoul City Hall and spilled out into the surrounding streets. The video to "Gangnam Style", featuring Psy's much-imitated horse-riding dance, went viral after its July release on YouTube, where it has now notched up more than 350 million views. AFP PHOTO / KIM JAE-HWANKIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/GettyImagesKIM JAE-HWAN
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Hundreds of fans sit near the stage in front of the city hall of Seoul on October 4, 2012, waiting for a free evening concert by South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, also known as "Psy". The concert, to be streamed live to an international audience via YouTube, caps a stunning month in which the rapper's hit "Gangnam Style" has stormed global charts and made the chubby 34-year-old a national hero. AFP PHOTO / KIM JAE-HWANKIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/GettyImagesKIM JAE-HWAN
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South Korean singer Park Jae-Sang, also known as Psy, performs during his free concert in Seoul on October 4, 2012. The municipal government closed off part of the city centre and extended subway operations for the estimated 80,000 fans who packed the open venue outside Seoul City Hall and spilled out into the surrounding streets. The video to "Gangnam Style", featuring Psy's much-imitated horse-riding dance, went viral after its July release on YouTube, where it has now notched up more than 350 million views. AFP PHOTO / KIM JAE-HWANKIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/GettyImagesKIM JAE-HWAN
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In the last month alone, PSY’s track has racked up over 300 million views thanks to highlight spots on Saturday Night Live and Ellen.Handout
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Korean rapper Psy teaches Red Bull Racing drivers Mark Webber (left) and Sebastian Vettel the Gangnam Style dance in the paddock before the Korean Formula One Grand Prix at the Korea International Circuit on October 14, 2012 in Yeongam-gun, South Korea.Mark Thompson
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South Korean police officers dance South Korean rapper PSY’s “ Gangnam Style” dance in the grandstand ahead of the Korean Formula One Grand Prix at the Korean International Circuit in Yeongam, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012.Mark Baker
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Will Gangnam Style dethrone Bieber's Baby on YouTube by the end of NovemberHandout
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FILE - South Korean rapper PSY, who sings the popular "Gangnam Style," performs during his concert in front of Seoul City Hall in Seoul, South Korea, in this, Oct. 4, 2012 file photo. YouTube says in a posting on its Trends blog that "Gangnam Style" had been viewed 805 million times as of Saturday afternoon, Nov. 24, 2012 surpassing Justin Bieber's "Baby," which has had 803 million views to become YouTube's most viewed video of all time.. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Thai inmates perform "Gangnam Style" dance on the stage during the dancing competition at a prison in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. The event was held to encourage inmates to do more exercise and coincide with the concert of South Korean rapper PSY's "Gangnam Style" to be held in Bangkok on Wednesday, Nov. 28. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

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Older men are being warned to avoid dancing to energetic hit songs like Gangnam Style after a British 46-year-old father of three collapsed and died at his office Christmas party after copying the moves of South Korean rapper Psy.

Eamonn Kilbride, an IT manager at a brewery in Blackburn in northern England, collapsed from chest pains and died from a heart attack last weekend after doing the vigorous dance, which has people mimicking riding a horse.

Kilbride was at the party with his wife, Julie, who was also celebrating her birthday that night. The couple, married for 23 years, had three children, all of whom are in university.

Julie, who told the British Sun newspaper that her husband had been up on stage dancing, described Kilbride as “the life of the party.” He collapsed shortly after dancing to Gangnam Style and Julie’s attempts to resuscitate him with CPR failed.

“We were having a fantastic time at the Christmas party and Eamonn had just finished dancing to Gangnam Style,” Julie told the British Sun. “He was up on stage and entertaining everybody. He said he had a bit of a pain and just collapsed. I tried to revive him until the ambulance got there, but by the time he got to the hospital he was gone.”

A coroner’s report later showed he’d died from acute heart failure, a condition that can be exacerbated by vigorous exercise.

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